http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2007/10/31/emc-and-voyence-swallowing-a-spider-to-catch-a-fly/ Business + Technology in the Exponential Economy Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:52:13 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2007/10/31/emc-and-voyence-swallowing-a-spider-to-catch-a-fly/comment-page-1/#comment-2719 Richard Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:37:32 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/2007/10/31/emc-and-voyence-swallowing-a-spider-to-catch-a-fly/#comment-2719 I think EMC missed the mark on this last purchase – SMARTS, NLAYERS and MOZY all made perfect sense. <a href="http://www.stratavia.com/data_palette_overview.php" rel="nofollow">Data Center Automation</a> is white hot right now, and I can’t fault them for wanting to get into that game, but starting so far out on the edge surprised me. Why not make a purchase closer to their home market (storage) to ease the distribution internally? It’d be easier for an EMC sales guy to sell storage automation than anything else. I would have figured that Stratavia or Enigmatic would have been a better fit. I think EMC missed the mark on this last purchase – SMARTS, NLAYERS and MOZY all made perfect sense. Data Center Automation is white hot right now, and I can’t fault them for wanting to get into that game, but starting so far out on the edge surprised me. Why not make a purchase closer to their home market (storage) to ease the distribution internally? It’d be easier for an EMC sales guy to sell storage automation than anything else. I would have figured that Stratavia or Enigmatic would have been a better fit.

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